The soundtrack for this movie had a large number of unknown artists for the day, which certainly wasn't the norm for a John Hughes production at that time.

Perhaps ahead of it's time, the soundtrack features artists with typically 80's band names such as Flesh for Lulu, and Lick the Tins, and although there is not one hit amongst any of them, this takes nothing away from what is an excellent soundtrack. Each song complements the scene perfectly.

From the pulsating opening track, to the night club scene, to the kissing lesson scene, to the climatic party scene, and finally, the beautiful cover of I Can't Help Falling In Love during the closing credits, every song appears to have been chosen with meticulous precision.

The soundtrack for Some Kind of Wonderful is available on CD (initially released in 1987 on Cassette and LP), although to the disappointment of many, does not include all the songs present in the movie.

Soundtrack listing

For those wondering what song appears where in this movie, we have detailed the scenes in which a particular song appears, if the song is present on the soundtrack, and the lyrics.

Due to the obscurity of some of these artists and songs, lyrics to some of the songs are impossible to find on major lyric web sites, or karaoke disks. Therefore we've had to transcribe a large number of them ourselves.

If the song doesn't appear on the soundtrack CD we have given you an alternative album where the song does feature.

Opening credits

Abuse (aka Dr Mabuse)

Performed by Propaganda

This song is not present on the soundtrack CD, but can be found on their albums A Secret Wish and Wishful Thinking.

The original scores by Stephen Hague and John Musser do not feature on the soundtrack (or anywhere else for that matter). Because of this, we have converted the two most requested scores to downloadable MP3's. As we don't actually know the titles of these scores, we have simply named them by the DVD chapter they appear in.

Variations of the "Private Showing" score feature quite heavily in the movie, and are used in almost all scenes requiring emotional music. These include the locker room scene where Watts compares herself to Amanda, the Friday night scene where Watts sees Keith asking Amanda out, the end of the scene in Watts' bedroom, the scene at the Hollywood Bowl, and the scene after the party where Amanda gives back the earrings.